Maria Tumarkin is an Australian cultural history, essayist and novelist, and is senior lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, teaching creative writing.
Early life and education
Tumarkin was born and raised in
Kharkiv, then part of the
Soviet Union, now in
Ukraine.
She left her home country in 1989 when she was a teenager, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a PhD in cultural history from the University of Melbourne.
Writing
She writes books of ideas, reviews, essays and pieces for performance.
Academia and projects
She was an Honorary Artistic Outreach Associate (2015–2016) at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and a co-creator, with Moya McFadzean, of "The Unending Absence" project.
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Tumarkin taught [[creative writing]] at the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.[
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Works
Books
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(2005)
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Courage (2007)
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Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter (2010)
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Axiomatic (2018)
Essays (selected)
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This Narrated Life (Griffith Review, 1 May 2014)
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No Skin (2 September 2015)
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Against Motherhood (20 October 2018)
Awards
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Otherland was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, The Age Book of the Year, and New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.
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"No Skin" was one of five finalists in the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature category for essays shorter than 20,000 words
[ Where are all the great Australian essays?, 24 February 2016, Sydney Morning Herald]
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Axiomatic won the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Best Writing
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Winner of the 2020 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize
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